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Article #430Help with understanding of shared memory read/write on Sequent
From: Jaroslaw Nieplocha
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:32
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:32
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I am wondering how Multiple-Reader-Single-Writer problem is handled on the Sequent Symmetry depending on the data item size.. Let me explain the problem. There are several processes reading data from a shared memory location. Only one process writes data, item by item. There is no explicit protection of the critical section. Assuming that the data item is represented by a floating point number, is it possible that readers may read corrupted at bit or byte level data? What is the atomicity of read/write operations ? Is it determined by the shared memory bus width (64bits) ? Is there any Sequent publication which explains implementation of shared memory read/write with respect to this issue? Thanks for any help, JN
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!pmafire!mica.inel.gov!ux1!news.byu.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!ua1ix!ua1ix.ua.edu!lnieplo3 From: lnieplo3@ua1ix.ua.edu (Jaroslaw Nieplocha) Subject: Help with understanding of shared memory read/write on Sequent Message-ID: <1992Sep29.193203.130065@ua1ix.ua.edu> Sender: news@ua1ix.ua.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: ua1ix.ua.edu Organization: The University of Alabama Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 19:32:03 GMT Lines: 17